Lea

“There had been something gentle in her, a pool of magic, not a running stream that had washed away all the ordinary parts of her life.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“Words make things real in a way that even memories can’t, so you stop there.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Fear and work weren't all bad, as companions went. They were both better than loneliness, and the deeper fears, the worse ones that I knew would come true: that I wouldn't see my mother and father for ten years, that I'd never live again in my own home, never run wild in the woods again, that whatever strange alchemy acted on the Dragon's girls would soon begin to take hold of me, and make me into someone I wouldn't recognize at the end of it.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted